Bourne man charged with beating ex-girlfriend

CENTERVILLE – Barnstable police arrested a Buzzards Bay man early today after he allegedly attacked his former girlfriend and beat her new boyfriend.

Patrick Cassidy

CENTERVILLE – Barnstable police arrested a Buzzards Bay man early today after he allegedly attacked his former girlfriend and beat her new boyfriend.

Police were called to a home on Outpost Lane last night shortly after 10 by a woman who told them that she and her boyfriend were assaulted at a nearby home in a “brutal way,” Barnstable police Sgt. Sean Sweeney said.

The woman told police her ex-boyfriend – Jason Giroux, 29, of 29 Bayberry Road, Buzzards Bay – had text messaged her earlier and then called her repeatedly, telling her during the final phone call that he was “coming over to kill my boyfriend."

Shortly after the last call Giroux rushed into the home and attacked the woman, throwing her into a coffee table, Sweeney said.

Giroux then threw her new boyfriend to the ground, beating him and kicking him in the head until he appeared unconscious, Sweeney said.

He then slammed a suitcase into the new boyfriend's head while the woman's two young children looked on, she told police.

Giroux then went into the kitchen and grabbed a large carving knife and threatened to kill the woman, Sweeney said. But instead of stabbing her he threw the knife towards her and it broke in half, according to police.

He then pushed the woman's face into a couch and assaulted her, she told police. The couple and children then fled to the home on Outpost Lane, she said.

Police later found Giroux and arrested him, Sweeney said.

The new boyfriend was treated and released from Cape Cod Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.

Giroux was scheduled for arraignment this morning in Barnstable District Court. He was charged with two counts of assault and battery, three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, intimidation of a witness, armed assault and burglary, and assault with intent to rape.